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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: kfree causing high latency on 3.4.4-rt13
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2013 12:49:56 +0100 (CET)
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On Tue, 29 Jan 2013, Austin Hendrix wrote:
> I'm running 3.4.4-rt13 on my systems, and while the realtime
> performance is great, I occasionally see non-realtime processes block
> for several seconds. Running latencytop, it looks like the kfree
> kernel process is the worst offender. Does anyone have advice on how I

There is no kfree process. kfree() is a function to release memory
allocated by kmalloc.

Can you provide the latencytop output please ?

Thanks,

	tglx